Vincent Brook
Biographic Data
| ID | 6735593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Brook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Brook |
| SIGNATURE | BROOK V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wired TV
This collection looks at the post–network television industry’s heady experiments with new forms of interactive storytelling—or wired TV—that took place from 2005 to 2010 as the networks responded to the introduction of broadband into the majority of homes and the proliferation of popular, participatory Web 2.0 companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Contributors address a wide range of issues, from the networks’ sporadic efforts to engage…
From Shtetl to Stardom
The outsized influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood takes an exciting and innovative approach to this rich and complex material. Exploring the subject from a scholarly perspective as well as up close and personal, the book combines historical and theoretical analy…
On Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penaltyin American Cinema
On Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penalty in American Cinema“Spare Me!” Vincent Brook The Death Penalty in American Cinema: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood Film. By Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014. 288 pp., ISBN 978-178-076333-0 (hc). US $95.00. Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penalty in American Cinema is not a total loss, either from a Jewish or cinema studies standpoint. Though making no claim to a predominantly Jewi…
On Casty’s Robert Rossen
On Casty’s Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist Vincent Brook Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist. By Alan Casty. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012. 276 pp., ISBN 978-0-7864-6981-9 (pbk). US $45. Alan Casty is on a mission—an important (if not particularly Jewish) one, in more ways than he may have been aware. Casty’s declared purpose in Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted I…
Sidney Lumet, Political Jew
Jews have been drawn disproportionately progressive political and cultural movements-whether substitute for religion, an extension of it, or self-interested and empathetic response oppression-since gaining entry into Western mainstream society in the late eighteenth century.1 Expressing this activist orientation in the United States, Jewish-American filmmakers also have played seminal role in movies that deal with issues: whether forthrightly, in…
The Four Jazz Singers
The 1927 movie The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson—famously ad-libbing synch dialogue, infamously appearing in blackface—has spawned three remakes: a 1952 and a 1980 movie starring Danny Thomas and Neil Diamond, respectively; and a 1959 television drama starring Jerry Lewis.1 The 1927 Jazz Singer was directed by Alan Crosland, the 1952 version by Michael Curtiz, the 1959 version by Ralph Nelson, and the 1980 version by Richard Fleischer. While no…
Convergent Ethnicity and the Neo-platoon Show
Corresponding to and partially driven by economic and technological convergence in the postnetwork era, American television programming in the past decade has produced a form of ethno-racial convergence in an array of prominent dramatic series such as Boston Public, Lost, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, and Ugly Betty. Featuring multiracial and multigendered casts, prime-time soap narrative structures, and, most significant, interracial romance, these po…
The Fallacy of Falsity
Convergent Ethnicity and the Neo-platoon Show
Corresponding to and partially driven by economic and technological convergence in the postnetwork era, American television programming in the past decade has produced a form of ethno-racial convergence in an array of prominent dramatic series such as Boston Public, Lost, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, and Ugly Betty. Featuring multiracial and multigendered casts, prime-time soap narrative structures, and, most significant, interracial romance, these po…
The Fallacy of Falsity
The Fallacy of Falsity
Convergent Ethnicity and the Neo-platoon Show
Corresponding to and partially driven by economic and technological convergence in the postnetwork era, American television programming in the past decade has produced a form of ethno-racial convergence in an array of prominent dramatic series such as Boston Public, Lost, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, and Ugly Betty. Featuring multiracial and multigendered casts, prime-time soap narrative structures, and, most significant, interracial romance, these po…
The Four Jazz Singers
The 1927 movie The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson—famously ad-libbing synch dialogue, infamously appearing in blackface—has spawned three remakes: a 1952 and a 1980 movie starring Danny Thomas and Neil Diamond, respectively; and a 1959 television drama starring Jerry Lewis.1 The 1927 Jazz Singer was directed by Alan Crosland, the 1952 version by Michael Curtiz, the 1959 version by Ralph Nelson, and the 1980 version by Richard Fleischer. While no…
Sidney Lumet, Political Jew
Jews have been drawn disproportionately progressive political and cultural movements-whether substitute for religion, an extension of it, or self-interested and empathetic response oppression-since gaining entry into Western mainstream society in the late eighteenth century.1 Expressing this activist orientation in the United States, Jewish-American filmmakers also have played seminal role in movies that deal with issues: whether forthrightly, in…
On Casty’s Robert Rossen
On Casty’s Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist Vincent Brook Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist. By Alan Casty. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012. 276 pp., ISBN 978-0-7864-6981-9 (pbk). US $45. Alan Casty is on a mission—an important (if not particularly Jewish) one, in more ways than he may have been aware. Casty’s declared purpose in Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted I…
On Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penaltyin American Cinema
On Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penalty in American Cinema“Spare Me!” Vincent Brook The Death Penalty in American Cinema: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood Film. By Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014. 288 pp., ISBN 978-178-076333-0 (hc). US $95.00. Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penalty in American Cinema is not a total loss, either from a Jewish or cinema studies standpoint. Though making no claim to a predominantly Jewi…
From Shtetl to Stardom
The outsized influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood takes an exciting and innovative approach to this rich and complex material. Exploring the subject from a scholarly perspective as well as up close and personal, the book combines historical and theoretical analy…
Wired TV
This collection looks at the post–network television industry’s heady experiments with new forms of interactive storytelling—or wired TV—that took place from 2005 to 2010 as the networks responded to the introduction of broadband into the majority of homes and the proliferation of popular, participatory Web 2.0 companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Contributors address a wide range of issues, from the networks’ sporadic efforts to engage…
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